Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary, multilingual artist and educator who explores notions of self, family, and circumstance through abstraction, language, and the everyday. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia, and Australia, and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, The Match Factory, Studio Visit, and Velocity. Oh is Faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he received an MFA in Fine Arts and teaches studio art. He is a writing tutor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a member of the international collective Atlantika. More at www.yamchewoh.com.
Maren Henson encodes the aural, visual, and class aspects of language with drawing, video and sound elements. She received her Master of Fine Art degree in the Mount Royal School of Multidisciplinary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 where she was a finalist for the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. She has since been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and a visiting artist at MICA. She has exhibited work in New York, Puerto Rico, Maryland, Texas, and California.
Leslie Sapp is a creator, performer, teacher, and director of movement-based story theatre and an Arts-Integration Specialist with special expertise in the integration of drama, movement, and storytelling activities into English language teaching. Leslie is passionate about supporting the creative self expression of immigrants and refugees, older adults, and other marginalized populations.
Leslie holds an MA in ESL, a Post Graduate Diploma in Drama in Education, a BFA in Visual Arts, and a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA).
Caidy Lynn is a mixed media artist living in Maryland. She has a B.A in Drawing and Painting from Towson University and an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Caidy Lynn uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork which explores ideas of identity, femininity and the divergence between human and animal. Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion she encourages viewers to engage with how unnatural being human can sometimes feel.
Annette Wilson Jones received her BFA from MICA in 1978 and, in 1980, she was hired by Beautiful Walls for Baltimore as a full-time muralist. In 1986, her work was chosen by New Museum Curator Brian Wallis for a five-person show, Sweet Land of Liberty, at School 33 Arts Center; was featured and awarded an honorarium by Baltimore City Paper for her drawing, Self-portrait as St. Sebastian, Tattooed on My Husband’s Back; and she had her first child/ spiritual guide.
Stacy Doney is an artist, poet, and licensed clinical social worker. Since childhood she has been fascinated with how other beings live their lives, both in the social world of humans and the wild places outdoors. She has lived in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York, and moved to Maryland in 2004. Her work is inspired by frequent walks, mystical poetry, meditation, music, visionary art, story, and relationships. She has a home studio called Kalmia Hill Arts, named after the Kalmia latifolia aka Mountain Laurel that grows in the woods around her home.
Ellyn Ross is a visual artist working in cut paper and print media. She was born in St. Mary's County, raised in the DC suburbs, and as an adult has lived all over the world, but always returns to Baltimore City. She is endlessly inspired by the natural world. Ross holds a BFA in printmaking from MICA, and an MFA in interdisciplinary fine art from the University of the Arts, London.
Claudia Cappelle was born in Chicago, Illinois where her appreciation for art began at an early age with visits to the Art Institute. She studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Medical Illustration.